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Text: | O love, how deep, how broad, how high |
Translator: | Benjamin Webb, 1819-1885 |
Tune: | DEO GRACIAS |
Adapter: | Richard Proulx, b. 1937 |
1 O love, how deep, how broad, how high,
how passing thought and fantasy,
that God, the Son of God, should take
our mortal form for mortals' sake!
2 For us baptized, for us he bore
his holy fast and hungered sore;
for us temptations sharp he knew;
for us the tempter overthrew.
3 For us he prayed; for us he taught;
for us his daily works he wrought:
by words and signs and actions, thus
still seeking not himself, but us.
4 For us to wicked hands betrayed,
scourged, mocked, in purple robe arrayed,
he bore the shameful cross and death;
for us gave up his dying breath.
5 For us he rose from death again;
for us he went on high to reign;
for us he sent his Spirit here
to guide, to strengthen, and to cheer.
6 All glory to our Lord and God
for love so deep, so high, so broad;
the Trinity whom we adore
for ever and for evermore.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O love, how deep, how broad, how high |
Translator: | Benjamin Webb, 1819-1885 (alt.) |
Meter: | LM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1985 |
Topic: | Jesus Christ our Lord |
Source: | Latin, 15th cent. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | DEO GRACIAS |
Adapter: | Richard Proulx, b. 1937 |
Meter: | LM |
Key: | c minor |
Source: | English ballad melody, Trinity College MS., 15th cent. |
Copyright: | By permission of Hymns Ancient & Modern Limited |